Mattress.



I G. F. SISBOWER & L. E. PITTONI.

MATTRESS. APPLICATION FILE-D JAN. 23. I915.

Patented Sept 18, 1917..

5 m 6 W W gm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. SISIBOWVER, EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, AND LOUIS E. PITTONI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORS TO NEW YORK COUCH BED COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

MATTRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

Application filed January 23, 1915. Serial N 0. 3,930.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE F. SIsBownR, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, and LOUIS E. Prr'roNr, a subject of the King of Italy, residing at New York city, county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mattresses, the following being a full, clear, and exact disclosure of the one form of our invention which we at present deem preferable.

For a detailed description of the present form of our invention, reference may be had to the following specification and to the accompanying drawing forming a part thereof.

Our invention relates to mattresses of wire fabric and involves means for protecting the stuffed mattress and the bed clothes from contact with the metal of the wire portion; also means for forming a side guard of nonmetallic fabric.

Turning to the drawing, A represents a wire mattress fabric of woven or link type which, as usual, is stretched taut on a metallic frame of which one of the end-bars is shown at B, the coiled springs D, D, etc., being interposed between the fabric A and the bar B. At each end of bar B an upright angle-piece C is riveted and a cable E under tension is extended from each anglepiece C, parallel with the fabric A and about two inches above the edge thereof, to

a corresponding angle-piece (not shown) onv the opposite end-bar. The side edges of the fabric A are also reinforced in the customary way with asimilar cable F. To each cable E is attached one edge of a canvas or other non-metallic strip H, the edge of the strip being folded over the cable and secured by a lacing cord running through eyelets it in the canvas. The lower edge of the canvas strip is turned under the edge of the metallic fabric A and secured to that fabric, just inside of the reinforcing edge-cable F, by a lacing cord and eyelets. On the upper side of the metallic fabric A is placed a sheet G of canvas or similar non-metallic material having eyelets along its edge by which it may be laced to the metallic fabric A, its side edges overlapping the inturned ed es of the canvas strip H on the under si e of metal fabric A. The same lacing may be used, if desired, to secure both fabrics G and H to the metal fabric A, the former being above and the latter below the said metal fabric. It will be observed that both of the canvas fabrics G and H are readily detachable for washing, or for replacing with canvas of a different color or pattern to match the color or pattern of the stuffed mattress that is used. Besides protecting the stuffed mattress and bed clothes from contact with the metal of fabric A and cable E, our arrangement of canvas strip H forms an improved type of sideguard that is washable, renewable and changeable to match the color or pattern of the stuffed mattress; while it also eliminates contact of the hands, when making up the bed, with the rough surface such as is presented by the ordinary metallic-fabric side guards which scrape the hands by the projecting wire ridges and are liable to contain broken wire strands that may cause decided injury.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a metallic-fabric mattress, of a side guard comprising uprights secured to the ends of said mattress, a cable connecting the upper ends of said uprights and located above the side edges of the mattress, and a flexible fabric guard covering said cable and detachably connected therewith, said fabric having a lower edge overlapping said mattress, and means whereby said overlapping edge is detachably connected with the contiguous edges of the mattress.

2. The combination with a metallic-fabric mattress, of a side guard comprising uprights secured to the ends of said mattress, a cable connecting the upper ends of said uprights and located above the side edge of the mattress, and a flexible fabric guard having one edge overlapping and inclosing said cable, lacings detachably connecting said overlapping edge with the body of said strip, the lower edge of said guard being extended beneath the contiguous edge of the members, and lacings detachably connecting said mattress and the extended lower edge of said guard.

3. The combination with a metallic-fabric mattress, of a side guard comprising uprights secured to the ends of said mattress,

a cable connecting the upper ends of said uprights and located above the side edges of the mattress, a flexible fabric guard covering said cable and having a lower edge overlapping the contiguous edge ofthe mattress, a sheet of fabric covering the mattress and having its edge overlapping the lower edge of the guard, and means for detachably connecting the overlapping edges of the guard and sheet to the mattress body.

a. The combination with a metallic-fabric mattress, of a side. guard comprising up-' reactor ing said cable and having a lower edge over lapping the contiguous edge of the mattress, a sheet of fabric covering the mattress and having its edge overlapping the lower'edge of the guard, and lacings passed through the overlapping edges of the guard and sheet and also through themattress body.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands, before two subscribing witnesses, this QOthday of. January, 1915.

GEORGE r. SISBOWEB. LOUIS n. PITTONI.

Witnesses:

CHAs. F. J. REIOHERT, L. T. S. ERISMAN.

Gopiesof this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, 11. 0. 

